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When they were crying about developer shortage for so long that they switched from regular tears to crocodile tears...

> Maybe LinkedIn (where everyone knows who everyone is) is the only place for honest discussion.

How honest do the too-good-to-be-true LinkedIN broetry stories look to you?

This might be true in general, but MIT degree enables one to make at least several million dollars in post-graduation life.

As long as there's no certificate pinning implemented in the apps (which can be defeated with some effort) I would go with a different approach and use mitmproxy. See: https://www.trickster.dev/post/setting-up-mitmproxy-with-and...

You absolutely don't need 100k in AWS credits to validate your idea and most web apps/SaaS APIs can be running on one or more Digital Ocean droplets at fairly low opex. AWS giving away cloud credits to startups is not unlike drug dealer handing out some free hits to new potential customers. They're not doing it out of goodness of their hearts.

There is more to tech than software, and there is more to software than web development.

If everyone is looking for seniors and beyond, then it is not the case that developers in general are in high demand - only a certain subset of them are. First proposition in your sentence directly contradicts the second one.

> Devs [in general] are in crazy high demand, and everyone is looking for Seniors+.

Isn't this statement self-contradictory?

I'm not American, but I think it might be even more narrow than that. Is it reasonable to expect six figure developer salaries if one is from outside small number of states with a lot of tech industry? What if one lives in Alaska?

Outside certain very expensive places software developers typically don't make six figure yearly amounts. Good luck trying to make over 0.3M USD with 3-5 years of experience in Europe or Asia. Besides, not everyone can learn programming at a professional level, just like not everyone can learn how to be professional doctor, artist or manager.

I second that. "Don't go to freelancing platforms, reach out to your network and local companies" is only good advice if you happen to be in the social/geographical/economical environment that has plenty of opportunities. Local market in any of East European countries is far smaller than it is on Upwork, Fiverr et. al. and is highly unlikely to pay first world rates. One may say that freelancing platform encourage race to the bottom kind of dynamics. That is true to some degree, but for the most part that is a problem only if you are doing commodity work and primarily compete on price. There is a relatively obscure sub-economy in the world of freelancing platform with people doing professional services for professional rates even by the standards of the first world.

No. Social media consumption is a cognitive equivalent of smoking. You're better off without it.

Cybercrime aside, AWS is almost always not worthwhile for small business or individual use. Issues like opaque billing, devops complexity and vendor lock-in go away immediately if you switch to Digital Ocean or one of the many simpler and cheaper cloud providers. Unless you are building something that is specific to AWS, relying on AWS as individual/small company is like buying enterprise router from Cisco or Fortinet for your home network - technically nothing is stopping you from doing so, but it's an overkill.

Would it be viable to use Vim in a terminal with big enough font size for programming with Quest 2 (perhaps via SSH connection to proper Linux system)?

Doesn't it matter where is the developer from? There's a lot of places in the world where $50/hr is way above local market rates, but is it easy for a developer outside US or UK to make that much on Upwork?

What are vendetta developers?

Is it professional for the management to run a project in such a way that it happens to be a slow-motion train wreck?

I.e. a lot of the people doing the hiring?

Neither. If you want to become wealthy - study business skills (sales, marketing, negotiation, market research, media buying, etc.) and look into starting doing something business-y as soon as possible. As a starting point it could be small-scale freelancing, such as making spokesperson or demo videos for brands, which would also help your aspiration to become an actor. Look into location-independent ways to make money online, but watch out for predatory fake gurus out there.

Be careful with your expectations to become rich in software if you have written zero lines of code (HTML doesn't count) at this point. You may hear about six-figure salaries and lamentations on the supposed developer shortage. However getting from zero lines of code to six figure SV salary (or even any kind of paid developer position) will be a significant challenge, especially if you don't have an intrinsic motivation to do technical work. Software is a bit of gold rush right now and extrinsic motivation can only take you so far when you try to practice dry-as-fuck theoretical CS puzzles in order to pass the interview, or when debugging a gnarly bug.

Lastly, employment is not that good of a way to become wealthy, as it entails making money on someone else's terms. It is in their best interest to pay you as little money as they can get away with. On the other hand, being self-employed enables you to offer your work to market on your own terms, at the price you decide. There's no upper (or lower) bound on how much you can make.

That doesn't apply if you defraud the rich people. Ask Bernie Madoff.

That assumes they will let you pass through reception without having a pre-arranged meeting.

Contracting or not, very few East European developers make six figure yearly amounts.

ASCIInema? https://asciinema.org/

Silence means lack of interest. If they wanted to hire you, it would be in their best interest to make an offer quickly.

Why would they give an offer if they want him to reject it?

Fresher is entry-level junior developer at their first job or looking for one. This term is mostly used in Indian context.

Start tracking your expenses ASAP with app like Spentable. All of them. Do this for few months. This will establish your baseline of how much you are spending per month. That's your personal burn rate.

Now this enables you to perform basic calculations on how long your savings will last. If you spend 1000 monetary units per month, 12k monetary units will last you entire year, and so on. Base your budget on burn rate that gives you balance between comfort and frugality.

Do a financial review every month. Look into how much you are spending for each category of expenses and see if it can be reasonably reduced. Are you within budget? Also recalculate runway duration that your stash of personal savings converts into. Calculate the date of your money running out under your current burn rate if you made zero new money. Write all of this down to keep track of your financial situation during the year.

Avoid taking out money out of your new company until you reach the point of being able to do so without hurting the business. Keep your personal funds separate from business funds even if you are the sole owner of your startup.

A lot of people talking about getting rich is not equivalent to everyone actually getting rich.

$5/month VPS on Digital Ocean.

I quickly skimmed [0] and my reading is that scanning is predicated on pictures being uploaded to iCloud. It says things like:

> CSAM Detection enables Apple to accurately identify and report iCloud users who store known Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) in their iCloud Photos accounts.

[0] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...

It seems that this can be mostly side-stepped by not using iCloud for storing the photos and preferably using something self-hosted instead. If you upload all your photos to e.g. Google there's nothing stopping them from scanning them and possibly using it against you as well.